The United States plans to jointly host a global summit focused on the Middle East, particularly Iran, next month in Poland, the US State Department said on Friday. T

he gathering will take place in Warsaw on February 13-14, it said in a statement. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Fox News in

an interview to air on Friday that the meeting would "focus on Middle East stability and peace and freedom and security here in this region, and that includes an important element of making sure that Iran is not a destabilizing influence."

The State Department said there were strong shared interests in Middle East stability.